"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"

I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.

The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.

Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.

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Your top 5 favorite cities you have visited

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1). Cape Town, South Africa
2). Tokyo, Japan
3). Mexico City
4). New York City
5). Copenhagen, Denmark

Bonus: The whole region of Piedmont, Italy is my favorite region as a whole in the world.
 

"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."

You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.

She's been waiting forty minutes.

Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.

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No particular order;

NYC
Las Vegas
Charleston, SC
New Orleans
Miami Beach

Bonus:
Santa Fe
 

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Amsterdam
Rotterdam
Köln
Paris
Honolulu

In no particular order.

Bonus:

Lille
 

"She Liked You in March. It's October Now."

Attraction runs on a clock.

She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.

The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."

One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.

Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.

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I've heard this city sucked? What about it do you like?
It was awesome...they have this super cool giant square in the center of the city that has tons of shops, restaurants, stores, etc around it with a giant fountain and obviously the giant cathedral like all those cities have that dates back to like the 13th century...
 

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It was awesome...they have this super cool giant square in the center of the city that has tons of shops, restaurants, stores, etc around it with a giant fountain and obviously the giant cathedral like all those cities have that dates back to like the 13th century...
are they really all alcoholics?
 

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Miami
Moscow
Krasnodar
Sochi
Yerevan



Least favorite, the other side of this list so to say, makes your eyes bleed list
Vienna
Warsaw
Istanbul
Antalya
Toshkent
 

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least favorite for me:

Las Vegas
Orlando
Dallas
Amsterdam
Atlanta

Bonus:
I was so impressed by Denmark that it just made Norway, Finland and Sweden look boring and overpriced smh.
 

"She Laughed All Night. Then She Ghosted You. Here's Why."

Dinner ran three hours. She laughed at everything. You walked her to her car thinking this one's locked in.

Then: nothing. Two texts. No reply. What happened?

You did what most men do on a great date. You filled every silence, answered every question, and left her with nothing to wonder about. No mystery. Nothing to sit with when she got home.

Rule 3 of the "22 Rules" changes the ending: tell her a little, hold back the rest, and let her imagination do the chasing. The ghosting stops too.

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Paris
Rio de Janeiro
Tokyo
Buenos Aires
London

I'm from NYC so can't count that.
 

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Hi CornbreadFed,
In descending order...Istanbul,Nanjing,Puerto Princesa,London,Adelaide.
 

"Nervous Around Beautiful Women? There's a Rule for That"

I could talk to any woman I wasn't attracted to. Charming, funny, relaxed. Then a gorgeous woman looked my way and I'd become a sweating, babbling mess.

The fix took me years to find and ten minutes to learn. Nervousness and excitement are the same physical state — pounding heart, adrenaline, flushed face. Your brain just picks the label. And you can pick a better one.

Rule 16 shows you how. You feel the nerves, relabel them as excitement, and let that energy pour out as enthusiasm. Women notice the guy radiating it. They always do.

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city+skiing: Sochi, Denver

dating: Kyiv, Kherson, Kharkiv, St. Petersburg

general pleasantness: Warsaw

;): Amsterdam
 
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